by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 7, 2023 | Lifestyle Choices
I have lost 30 pounds in the last few months, but it has not been the agony that diets through the years have been. It has been about reorienting my thinking, not so much about the food itself, but about my relationship to food….. what longing I seek to satisfy...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | May 13, 2022 | Lifestyle Choices, love
5/13/2018…… “For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil that I would not, that I do.” ….The Apostle Paul hit it on the nail. The Human Condition. Our double mindedness. The paradox of our carnal nature. That which bedevils our...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 14, 2022 | Lifestyle Choices
There are those who make unwarranted interpretational leaps that suggest that relationships between individuals in scripture demonstrate approval of and endorse their own support of homosexual conduct. People who equate spiritual and emotional intimacy between people...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 7, 2022 | Life Recovery, Lifestyle Choices, Twelve Steps
A fearless and searching Twelve Step study under the supervision of a Christian who is experienced in spiritual direction and guidance can be one of the most helpful spiritual discipline practices you will ever undertake…..Life-changing. Peace-making....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 17, 2022 | Lifestyle Choices, witness
Freedom……. Yesterday I spent time reviewing a Rokeach Value Survey with a young lady. She arranged its 18 terminal values and 18 instrumental values in prioritized order and we set about exploring what her choices revealed about her understanding of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 20, 2019 | Lifestyle Choices
In the mid-70’s my husband, Bill and I were friends with a couple whose children played with our children. They lived a few blocks from us. The husband and I worked at the same hospital in the same department. I was a medical technology intern and he was a physician...
